How mercury is made material, history, used, processing ...
The transformation from elemental mercury to methylmercury is a complex biogeochemical process that requires at least two steps, as shown in figure 8: (1) oxidation of Hg (0) to Hg (II), followed by (2) transformation from Hg (II) to CH 3 Hg + ; step 2 is referred to as methylation.